The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 46
When they had finished the king’s son drew an apple from his pocket, and cut it into a big half and a little half, and offered both to the stranger, who took the biggest bit.
Who acts: apples, finished son, stranger · What happens: finish, draw, cut, offer, take · To what, where: apple, pocket, big half, both, stranger, biggest bit
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apples, finished son, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 son | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | nsubj |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 apple | det |
| 11 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 pocket | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 14 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obl | ||
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cut | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cut | cc |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drew | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cut | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 half | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 half | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 half | amod |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 cut | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 half | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 half | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 half | amod |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 half | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 offered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 offered | cc |
| 29 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cut | conj |
| 30 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 offered | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 stranger | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stranger | det |
| 33 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 offered | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 took | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 took | nsubj |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 stranger | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bit | det |
| 38 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 bit | amod |
| 39 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | apples = apple | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | the king's finished son | a apple | son's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | cut | past | a big half and a little half | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into half=Product | |||||
| 4 | offer | past | both | to the stranger goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent both=Theme to stranger=Goal | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the stranger | the biggest bit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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